I choose my yearly adventures in strange ways. I chose Barcelona (almost embarrassed to admit it) because I saw this city on an episode of "The Bachelorette". It looked interesting and I wanted a change from the sometimes dark and ancient history of some of my previous trips. I really had no idea that this …
Continue reading My Favorite Adventure-Barcelona, Spain and Antoni Gaudi
My second visit to Scotland put a spell on me. I traveled through the Highlands, taking in the vast green fields, the rocky hills and mountains, and the lovely waterways. Since coming home, I've been like a hologram, a wavering collection of intense energy without substance. I've tried to understand why I have such a …
 This Autonomous Traveler is behind in her blog posts because she traveled autonomously this week! I went to Ottawa, Canada to see a special exhibit of impressionist artists at the Canadian National Art Gallery. [gallery ids="798,801,802,803" type="slideshow" As usual, I immersed myself in this travel experience. On one of the gallery walls was a …
I am reblogging this once more for two people I recently met who fly fish. When I was newly divorced and my kids were off to college I used to go to a place with a band every Friday evening with my single female friends. Heads up and stomachs sucked in, we pretended to …
I have three cameras, two identical Canon Power Shot 1300s and a Cannon Power Shot 570. I purchased them all on Ebay and I took all the pictures on The Autonomous Traveler with them except one picture for my story about Poland. I had to get that picture from the internet since all my Poland …
India has been on my list of trips for awhile but what finally made me decide to go was a Hindu celebration held in St. Augustine in April. I loved the color and joy I witnessed. I told one of the participants about my travel list and was given prayer beads and enthusiastic encouragement to …
It was a “someday’’ experience. “Someday I will go to Paris and it will be warm and sunny and it will be perfect.” And as I glided along the Seine, it was. I smiled, not a young artificially enhanced smile, perfected with caps and chemical whiteners. My grin, weathered by too many sweets and the …
"You use a glass mirror to see your face, you use works of art to see your soul." -George Bernard Shaw. I leisurely drove through Vermont last week...Bennington, Manchester, Burlington, North Hero. I had escaped some bad weather in Connecticut and Massachusetts and my days in Vermont …
One day when I was 46, I decided to hike all 46 of The High Peaks of the Adirondacks. I tend to live out my life in headlines, always proclaiming a new interest with passion and bursts of wild enthusiasm. So 46 at 46! The coincidence had a certain mystical quality to it and I …
Continue reading It’s All About the Math-Hiking in the Adirondacks
For many of us civilian citizens who live around Fort Drum, an army base in northern New York State, this military reservation looks pretty mysterious and remote. We are familiar with the Army helicopters and jets, are used to the booms of practice maneuvers, and are no longer surprised by the red glow of flares …
Continue reading An Army Base as a Community Unifier-Fort Drum, New York
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